On December 16th, the women's sprint race took place at the third world cup in Hochfilzen. Olga Zaytseva won the first gold medal of the season for the Russian team. On December 17th Zaytseva will start the pursuit race 14 seconds ahead of the nearest competitor Darya Domracheva from Belarus.

To ask biathletes a question you do not need to be a journalist or travel far away for seldom meetings with your favorite biathlete. Biathlonrus.com became a communicator between the national team’s biathletes and their fans, and launched a new project«Fans’ conference». Follow the RBU’s news at Facebook, VKontakte and Twitter, leave your questions and receive your answers. In the first«Fans’ conference» — Olga Zaytseva, Svetlana Sleptsova and Yana Romanova make a lot of jokes and tell whose dream was it to become a sewer in a childhood, whose happiness is in Pichler, and are there any biathletes from a Tsar’s family in the national team.